Hello!
I just got a Seagate Exos Mach2 dual actuator sata drive and am trying to create a RAID 0 out of the two halved partitions in order to mimic what the SAS version does with the two LUNs and basically double the potential speed by using both actuators simultaneously.
I cannot however seem to figure out how to create this striped volume, as the disk management options are all greyed out. I’ve tried switching the disk to dynamic as well, and it’s the same thing.
I’m not too sure how to achieve this, since RAID usually requires disks and not partitions, but it’s definitely achievable under Linux: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/how-to-zfs-on-dual-actuator-mach2-drives-from-seagate-without-worry/197067
Anyone know? The limitation being of course, Windows.
Just an update here, and if anyone finds this thread later on - I was successful!
Not in Windows however, I had to create the array using mdadm and with the use of WinMD 3rd party driver, to allow it to be mounted on Windows.
For reference, here are Disk Mark tests before and after.
It’s not quite 2x the performance, but it’s definitely better, and best of all, it was free performance!